Rick and Morty: Forever, Darkwing Duck hits bookstores — and more.

February 11, 2026 Daniel Kibblesmith

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I went ahead and wrote the last Rick And Morty comic.

At least, the last one from Oni Press, the publisher that has held the license for the past ten years and put out many, MANY Rick And Morty comics by creators like Kyle Starks, Tini Howard, Marc Ellerby, Tom Fowler, Zander Cannon, Jim Zub, Nick Filardi, CJ Cannon, Jake Black, Jody Houser, Meg Casey, the team of Alex Firer and Fred C. Stresing both together and separately — honestly too many to list here. But only one writer was so unapologetically awful that they could be trusted to destroy this comics line once and for all, and I was not a hard man to find.

Artist, Troy Little, was probably a harder man to find, because he is enormously talented and therefore enormously busy. Together, along with the whole Oni Press gang, we bring you the epic 48 page series finale Rick And Morty: Forever. If you’ve been watching this space (or following the comics) you know that myself, Jarrett Williams, Alessandro Santoro and company have been torturing Rick and Morty through two epic, cosmic, universe-spanning (and universe-fighting) miniseries: Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe and Rick And Morty: The End. So what comes after The End? It’s like the blue guy says, “Nothing ever ends.” And then he showed his penis and became god. Via Oni Press:

How do you punish the smartest man in the universe?
Show him everything—everything—he’s ever wanted to know or see, and afford him no power to do anything about it,” reads the Oni Press release. “Rick Sanchez, the destroyer of worlds. Now he sits in endless observation of all there is to see, tortured by cosmic impotence, the ultimate expression of ‘go to your room and think about what you did.
But in his endless torment, Rick realizes that a fate of unspeakable horror also awaits his unwitting companion: his grandson, Morty. Can Rick save the soul of the only being that ever stood by him through all his indiscretions? Can the transformative power of love give rise to the triumph of the human spirit? Or is everything just #@$%@?

Find out by pre-ordering Rick And Morty: Forever — digitally or from a local comic shop near you.

Coming To Paperback And Hardcover

Darkwing Duck: Year One, Part One

Let’s get dangerous. And let’s get more durable.

Cover by Darkwing Duck creator, Tad Stones.

The only downside to writing Darkwing Duck stories in a print medium is that you don’t get to hear the theme song, which is why I’ve been trying to get into your house at night, so I can personally soothe and thrill you with it. Since you’ve been pretending you didn’t see or hear me (how dare you), I am thrilled and soothed to announce that the first paperback collection of our Darkwing Duck comics from Dynamite Entertainment will soon be appearing in a cloud of smoke in a comic shop or bookstore near you.

Via Dynamite:

HE PUTS THE "ABLE" IN "UNRELIABLE NARRATOR"!
He is the terror that flaps in the night! The fowl that felons most fear! A legend in his own time (and his own mind)! He is... DARKWING DUCK!
But how did this avian exemplar develop his redoubtable reputation? What lessons did he learn in his early days of crime-busting and foe-foiling? His legion of fans (or, at least, his adopted daughter, Gosalyn) want to know - and DW is more than happy to tell her the whole (possibly embellished) story in this unauthorized (and unorganized) autobiography!
Acclaimed author DANIEL KIBBLESMITH (Black Panther vs. Deadpool) and the double-headed art team of TED BRANDT & RO STEIN (The Mighty Captain Marvel) return to the rooftops of St. Canard for an all-new tale that revisits (and revises) Darkwing Duck's formative years.
Collecting issues #1-6 of the high-flying series, Darkwing Duck: Year One, Part One also includes a complete cover gallery featuring iconic imagery from BRANDT & STEIN, MARK BAGLEY, NICOLETTA BALDARI, CIRO CANGIALOSI, and TAD STONES - creator of the original Darkwing Duck animated series!

These are all-ages comics for the whole family (honestly designed, by me, for millennial parents to read with and to children) — so if your floppy Darkwing Duck comics are already officially graded as 10.0’s and perma-bound in Lucite, here’s an opportunity to give a sturdy volume of Darkwing comics to a kid who is allowed to throw it in their backpack, leave it in their tree house, and overall read it to shreds.

Preorder it directly from Dynamite here or call your favorite local comic shop or bookstore now.

On Sale Now

Rick And Morty: The End from Oni Press ongoing monthly at a local comic shop near you.
So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe in handbook-sized hardcover from Chronicle Books

Coming VERY Soon!

Strip Law on Netflix!

Set your reminders now and follow the official Strip Law Instagram account for more extremely funny clips and trailers like this one.

Currently Reading

I’ve been pushing Adam Becker’s More Everything Forever like I get a cut. We already know that billionaires are ignoring real world problems and their own roles in them by hyperfocusing on an impossible A.I. fueled pipe dream future in space, but it’s cathartic to hear a very smart person make an accessible, yet definitive case for why it’s all bullshit. Pick it up right now.

Okay, seeya.

'Strip Law' trailer, Mad Magazine, Rick and Morty and more.

January 26, 2026 Daniel Kibblesmith

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Here’s the trailer for Cullen Crawford’s new animated Netflix comedy Strip Law.

Via Netflix:

Uptight lawyer Lincoln Gumb, who is too boring to win cases in Vegas, teams up with local magician/hedonist Sheila Flambé to bring some flash and pizzazz to the stupidest cases the city can throw at them.

I am one of the writers for this show and it is the best job I have ever had. It took some of the smartest, funniest, most good-hearted people on Earth to make something this unapologetically weird and funny and unflinchingly human and all I can compare it to is the earlyish seasons of The Simpsons that inspired us (among other things, like other great comedy and life’s daily punishments and horrors).

I’ve known and worked with Cullen for twentyish years (oh no), and he is the secret or not-secret mind behind much of the comedy you’ve enjoyed in that time — and this is what it’s all been building toward.

Strip Law drops February 20, 2026. Click here or search ‘STRIP LAW’ on Netflix to set your reminders now. And if you’re reading this in the future, which literally all of you are, after you watch Strip Law, click “RATE THIS TITLE” and the double-thumbs-up “LOVE THIS!” icon to tell Netflix’s algorithm you want season two.

Unbelievably, I am not joking. This is important.

DO NOT GIVE STRIP LAW A ONE-THUMBS UP. This is not a joke. For reasons that were not made clear to us, but are real, ONE thumbs up is actually bad for the show’s metrics. TWO is good. Am I supposed to be revealing this information? Unclear. Does it matter? Not really, because Strip Law is going to be your new favorite television program and you’re going to want to give it as many algorithm-boosting thumbs up as possible.

Just Announced:

MAD About DC

Ask your Mom to take you to the grocery store, because Mad Magazine is back — in D.C. Comics form.*

When I received an e-mail from Chip Zdarsky with the subject line “MAD!!!” — I assumed he was mad. Either at me, for the many horrible things I’ve said about him over the years and the ways I’ve quietly worked to impede his career. Or, alternatively, that he had gone “mad” the way King George was mad —mentally unstable and peeing blue according to a movie I saw in grade school.

It turns out it was a little of the latter, because Chip had just been named the editor (sort of like a “king”) of a new Mad Magazine send-up of D.C. comics and he wanted me to script a story for it. I did not end up finding out what color his urine was.

I was not a Mad Magazine reader growing up (more of a Disney Adventures kid), but I am a comics and cartoonist fan/dork so it’s only a matter of time before I point my face down into the exploded Chernobyl reactor that is Mad Magazine’s history of showcasing creators like Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragonés, Wally Wood, and their professional peer starting now — me.

Mind you, I did not draw this comic story myself, and I’m not sure I’m allowed to say who did, but if you’ve been following my other comics output, you won’t be surprised or disappointed. You might, however, be angry (MAD?) that it was limited to one page, because — Jesus Christ, look who all they got for this thing:

Via D.C. Comics:

DC is proud (and slightly concerned) to announce MAD About DC, a 64-page one-shot arriving April 1, 2026. Yes, April 1. And no, this isn’t a prank—unless you count letting Chip Zdarsky run this thing as its Guest Editor a prank on the DC Universe itself. You’d have to ask Chip.
“They say at DC there’s nowhere to go but down after writing Batman, and, yeah, it’s true,” said Zdarsky. “It’s very true.”
MAD About DC brings together an all-star lineup of writers and artists to lovingly roast, parody, and generally make a mess of the characters fans hold dear.
“This project embraces the spirit of MAD Magazine in the best possible way,” said Marie Javins, DC’s Editor-in-Chief. “MAD has a long tradition of sharp, fearless satire, poking fun at everything, including DC, with real wit and craft. When Chip pitched a project that would roast the DC Universe, it was clear he could assemble the right team. These creators know our characters inside and out, which is why they can twist them in ways that feel both surprising and smart. That kind of playful irreverence is what MAD does best.”
Inside MAD About DC, readers will find:
• Sergio Aragonés with “A MAD Look at Comic Book Stores”
• Jim Zub & Ramon Perez teaming for “Guy vs. Spy”
• A brand-new DC Fold-In by Charles Soule & Ryan Browne
• A parade of MAD-style parodies skewering the DC comic books you love, and a few you’ve always hated anyway, from Kyle Starks, Dave Johnson, Tini Howard, Mattie Lubchansky, Mark Waid, Ty Templeton, Rainbow Rowell, Vita Ayala, M.L. Sanapo, Mark Russell, Steve Lieber, Jeff Parker, Lukas Ketner, Gerry Duggan, Scott Aukerman, Mitch Gerads, Joanne Starer, Joe Quinones, Scott Snyder, Josh Williamson, Deniz Camp, Gail Simone, Colleen Doran, Joe Kelly, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Mariko Tamaki, Riley Rossmo, Al Ewing, PJ Holden, Shannon Wheeler, Leah Williams, Isaac Goodhart, Cody Ziglar, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Daniel Kibblesmith, Brandt & Stein, Casey Gilly, J. Bone, Skottie Young, Andrew Wheeler, Stephen Byrne, Colleen Coover, Benjamin Errett, Matt Fraction, Kagan McLeod, Lee Gatlin, Joseph Starkey, Graham Roumieu…and more?!
Whether you’re a lifelong MAD Magazine fan, a DC diehard, or simply someone who enjoys watching respected creators make questionable choices, MAD About DC promises to fulfill your every comic book dream…or at least three or four of them.
MAD About DC goes on sale April 1, 2026, wherever comics are sold. No whoopee cushions included. The issue features a main cover by Dan “MAD About Gluten Labeling Because It Should Actually Be Clearer or Else What’s the Point” Panosian ($7.99 US), cardstock variants by Simon Bisley and Chip Zdarsky ($8.99 US), and a foil variant by Panosian ($10.99 US).

Call your local comics shop to reserve a copy now — and/or find one to start patronizing regularly, it’s good for the community, the arts, the business I’m in, and the soul.

On Sale Now!

Rick And Morty: The End!

On sale now from Oni Press — the epic six-part conclusion event to the Rick And Morty Oni Comics Universe! Will this be THE END of RICK AND MORTY? YES! That is LITERALLY the TITLE!

The incredible artist Jarrett Williams and the whole Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe team follow-up the first ever Rick And Morty comics event with the last ever Rick And Morty comics event!

Via Oni Press:

OUT OF THE SMOKING RUINS OF RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE, THE OMNIVERSE’S MOST DYSFUNCTIONAL PAIR OF SCIENCE ADVENTURERS IS ABOUT TO FACE THEIR BIGGEST, MOST INESCAPABLE ADVERSARY OF ALL TIME: THE END OF ALL THINGS . . . AND EACH OTHER! Rick Sanchez, the most wanted man in this and every other universe, is on the run. With a bounty on his head, every government, military, pirate, mobster, bounty hunter, bail bondsman, religious institution, theater troupe, circus clown, and endangered species is on the hunt to bring in Rick—DEAD OR ALIVE. The only one who can bring Rick in warm is the one person who knows him best: Morty Smith. But Morty’s not the only Smith hot on Rick’s trail . . . "Space Beth" Smith is determined to bring Rick in, and she doesn’t particularly care how. Now it’s just a question of who can get to him first! THIS TITLE IS NOT SOME KIND OF ARTFUL METAPHOR, FOLKS! After 10 years and 100+ issues, the beginning of THE END starts here as cosmic annihilators Daniel Kibblesmith (Loki) and Jarrett Williams (Speed Force) prepare to unleash a fantastically fatal finale for RICK AND MORTY!

Available here or from that comic shop near you that you just discovered. Rick And Morty: The End (4 of 6) hits stands February 4th, 2026.

Also Still On Sale!

And the 144-page, illustrated hardcover handbook from Chronicle Books — So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe.

—all available digitally or from a local comic shop near you.

Currently Reading

This Year by John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats. One song/chapter per a day as a little ritual. If I recall from the introduction, this is not a strict prescription, but how often are you invited to experience art this way, outside of a Far Side calendar?

*See, I wasn’t kidding about the Simpsons influence.

New Podcast: "Scott Hasn't Seen" — Plus Boing Boing and Comic Block Party Round-Up

November 11, 2025 Daniel Kibblesmith

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I went on another podcast. It’s this one:

Comedian, Podcast Mogul, and Marvel Comics Writer, Scott Aukerman has seen many movies, but (as he would be the first to admit) not all of them. Blade Trinity was a movie he apparently had not seen — or so I learned when he sent me an alphabetized list of potential movies and I did not make it past the B’s.

Blade (1998), at any given moment, might be my favorite movie. It never leaves the top three. So it was a blast and an honor to join Scott and Sprague The Whisperer on Scott Hasn’t Seen to discuss a movie that I have seen many more time than most movies I love. The mild spoiler here being: I do not love this movie.

Listen here or on the podcast platform of your choice by subscribing to Comedy Bang Bang World. That’s right, I’m behind the paywall — but so is a galactic amount of funny, weird, great comedy from many of my favorite people ever to do it. So let me ranting about how Blade 3 is “my Star Wars prequels” be the last push you needed to sign up and check it out.

Me, posing with my bird that is also named me.

‘How To Survive The Marvel Universe’ on Boing BoIng.

I’ve heard of Comedy Bang Bang — but Computers Boing Boing? I’ve heard of that as well.

My friend Ruben Bolling, also the cartoonist behind Tom The Dancing Bug, wrote a very cool feature on So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe for Boing Boing — a publication I’ve been reading since the invention of the Internet, one million years ago. Check it out here.

Revenge Of Comic Book Block Party Round-Up

I don’t really know what a “round-up” is, especially in this context. I just like it because it sounds cowboy.

Me again, for real this time. Photo by Alex Firer, but he used my phone, so I’ve decided I own it.

Thanks to everyone who came out to Revenge Of in Eagle Rock for the third annual Comic Book Block Party hosted by Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum. If you missed it (or you were there and you’re looking for pictures of yourself) photos and highlights are still rolling out over social. Check here for even more — and see you there (again) next year.

What Else Is New?

I joined a WGA off-season softball league and I am terrible. I’m also not clear on what makes this the off-season, I never know what the score is, or how many outs there have been, or how many balls/strikes I have and it’s tremendous fun.

On Sale Now!

From Chronicle Books, cover illustrations by Kyle Hilton.

The aforementioned So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe is available now from basically any bookstore that has a phone, because they can order you a copy, so support your favorite local bookstore, and me, and a scrappy little organization called Disney-Marvel.

Makes a great gift and I’m being told is especially popular with 7-12 year olds. This sounds like a lie and I would absolutely still say it if it wasn’t true, but it turns out it’s true.

Also still on sale from a comic shop near you or digitally:

—all available digitally or from a local comic shop near you.

Currently Reading

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (ever heard of it). I’d planned on finishing it before the movie came out, but then it turned out that the movie is pretty different, which I’m guessing has never happened to a book before and especially not this exact book.

Blade Trinitily yours,

On Sale Today: 'How To Survive The Marvel Universe.'

October 28, 2025 Daniel Kibblesmith

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Today’s the day. So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe, written by me, illustrated by Kyle Hilton, is officially on sale from Chronicle Books at online retailers and bookstores near you.

On Sale Now From Chronicle Books

Via Chronicle Books; Cover by Kyle Hilton

Order Now

If you already have a copy, or plan to get one, please don’t forget to flag it for the algorithm by rating and reviewing on Amazon, marking it “To-Read” on Goodreads, and leaving a few kind words on whatever other book-related social media or retailers you might use, as well as requesting your local library order a copy — which can usually be done very easily through their website.

And if you still require convincing (or just want to hype yourself up as you wait for your mail-order copy to arrive) — read on.

Via Chronicle Books:

The Marvel Comics Universe is full of action, adventure, danger, and cosmic peril. Be ready for anything with this illustrated action handbook—whether you have newly developed super-powers, you need to pilot an Iron Man suit, or Galactus is here to eat the Earth.

Written by Marvel Comics and Emmy-nominated humor writer Daniel Kibblesmith, this official illustrated guide to surviving and thriving in the Marvel Universe uses comics-tested advice to steer readers through what to expect when exposed to gamma rays, bonding with a symbiote or—ow!—feeling an unexpected sting at the science fair. Featuring practical information such as wall-crawling tips, along with emergency information (you’ve been plunged into the Quantum Realm) and day-to-day guidance if your cat turns out to be a Flerken, you suspect someone of being a Skrull, or are facing a doombot, this is the must-have handbook as you live in the world of Marvel’s mightiest heroes.

CRUCIAL ADVICE FROM MARVEL COMICS: What would you do if you discover you had mutant abilities, or are the only one on a heroic team without super-powers? Marvel comics writer and lifelong fan Daniel Kibblesmith finds inspiration and advice in the comics to offer tips and strategies for navigating these and many more of the reader’s own 'what if' experiences.

IMAGINATIVE ADVENTURES: The Hulk is totally hulking out, with mayhem imminent; you’re weighing the pros and cons of legal representation from Matt Murdock or Jennifer Walters (or P.I. help from Jessica Jones or Howard the Duck); you need to speak Groot but are not fluent. This book has got you covered!

Perfect for:

Marvel fans looking for a fresh, funny spin on the comics
Fans of action hero handbooks and survival guides
Fans of Marvel Super Graphic, Marvel Mazes, and Thor and Loki: Midgard Family Mayhem

Format: Hardcover

Publication Date: 10/28/2025

ISBN: 9781797233543

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